The 11- and 12-year-old UK school children will receive Micro Bit, a stripped-down computer that can be worn on a lanyard. Similar to the Raspberry Pi, ...

It has now opened up availability to everyone. A single micro:bit can be pre-ordered for £12.99, or a starter kit – with a battery pack, USB cable and some basic tutorials – costs £14.99. A ...

micro:bit v2 is built around a Nordic Semi nRF52833, which will run application code, Bluetooth stack and handle USB. The core in this chip is a 64MHz Arm Cortex-M4 with a floating point unit – ...

BBC Learning will give every student in Year 7 (11- and 12-year-olds) a credit card-sized Micro:bit computer.

In a move that will bring a nostalgic smile to some British kids (and teachers) of the 80s, the BBC has announced that it is to produce a new educational mini-computer -- codenamed the 'Micro Bit ...

micro:bit products, accessories and a range of free-to-download educational resources and lesson plans are available online from Farnell in EMEA, Newark in North America and element14 in APAC.

As part of our micro:bit – the next gen campaign, we spoke to teachers and tech professionals to get their expert input on how to make micro:bit lessons more inclusive.

Conceived and convened by the BBC, the BBC micro:bit has been made possible by a pioneering partnership of 29 organisations. It is unprecedented in its scale, ambition and dedication to help a new ...

The BBC Micro:bit, while not quite as popular in our community as other microcontroller development boards, has a few quirks that can make it a much more interesting piece of hardware to build a ...

Luckily, we’ve put together this list of nine fun-but-legal micro:bit projects to try instead, ranging from simple to satisfyingly tricky. And if you’re not one of those lucky year seven students, ...